INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS

INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS; Nestle to Buy Spillers From Dalgety

Published: February 5, 1998

Dalgety P.L.C. agreed to sell its Spillers pet food manufacturing business to the Swiss food maker Nestle S.A. for $:715 million ($1.16 billion). Dalgety also said yesterday that it had agreed to sell Martin-Brower, which supplies hamburgers to the McDonald's Corporation, to the closely held food processor Reyes Holdings for $:120 million.

Nestle said the acquisition ''ideally complements'' its pet food business, allowing the food maker to expand into Britain and northern Europe.